Ask HN: What will happen to the Go ecosystem if one day GitHub closes

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5 years ago

Seeing all those `import "github.com/repo/lib"` worries me.

There is no central registry in Go (like PyPi, or NPM, or Crates.io), and it seems there is no will to add one.

Are we expected to mirror github on our infrastructure to become resilient in case of a major outage?

How can a language be so popular with such bad design choices?

After reading this article: https://medium.com/@rwxrob/gophers-we-dont-need-no-stinking-package-registry-cb8f9051e6f0

I sense a bit of hypocrisy:

> What if the thing goes down or becomes unworkably slow (as NPM has done on countless occasions)?

What if I remove my git repository? What if Github goes out of service?

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